Why did the old woman drive away the old monk?

The answers to humanities questions are diverse.

I think this topic is boring. It can be said that the old woman thinks that the old monk said that her daughter is not beautiful and lifeless. This is the last thing an old woman who is proud of her daughter can tolerate, so she just drove him away. The old monk's sentence "the dead wood is still in the cold world" is hinting at something to the old woman, right? Her daughter seduced him?

Of course, there is another understanding: Buddhist practice requires love. Monks take everything lightly, but this does not mean that they are pessimistic; monks have six pure roots, but this does not mean that their hearts are ashes. The perfection pursued by practitioners is not to regard everything as corrupt. If the mind is dead, where will the Buddha come from? What higher realm can a monk with a despairing heart hope for? The great mercy of the monks was not reflected in this old monk, and the old woman was very disappointed. What monks call ending their worldly fate is actually replaced by selfless love.